Legal
1. Definitions
In these Terms of Use, the below terms shall have the following meanings:
– Payment Confirmation: the payment confirmation You receive upon payment of the prescription fee, as requested by UHasselt.
– SKETCH ATLAS: the online educational platform for (blended) learning within specialized video tutorials on the topic of architectural sketching/envisioning, developed by UHasselt and made available at the Website.
– Terms of Use: the terms and conditions as set forth in these articles, with respect to Your use of SKETCH ATLAS.
– UHasselt: a public autonomous institution, operating under Belgian law, established at Martelarenlaan 42, 3500 Hasselt, Belgium, and with company number BE0208.359.859: https://www.uhasselt.be/en
– Website: the website on which SKETCH ATLAS is made available by UHasselt: https://sketchatlas.org.
– You: visitor of the Website.
2. General information
Consulting or using this Website implies Your full knowledge and acceptance of these Terms of Use.
The specific subscription of Your access to SKETCH ATLAS is described in more detail in the Payment Confirmation. The Payment Confirmation and these Terms of Use shall constitute the agreement between You and UHASSELT, to the exclusion of any other general terms and conditions (if any).
3. Account management
Any visitor of the Website can freely create an account if they are 18 years old or over and are legally competent to do so.
Access to Your account is strictly personal and is protected by a password which You need to keep secret, which is sufficiently strong and needs to be changed at regular intervals. You are not allowed to provide access to Your account or make it available to a third party in any way.
4. Availability and security
UHASSELT puts in the required efforts to ensure that SKETCH ATLAS is available over the chosen timespan, without being able to be held liable for interruptions, regardless of whether or not these are due to external factors or to its own actions/inactions.
UHASSELT offers You a reasonable level of support, but does not offer any guarantee with regard to availability.
UHASSELT provides maintenance to the best of its abilities, including adjustments and corrections of the Website. If possible, planned servicing will be announced in advance in case they have an impact on Your use of the Website. Urgent maintenance can take place without prior notice. It is possible that substantial functionalities of the Website are altered by UHASSELT, without You being allowed to object to this.
UHASSELT will go to great lengths to ensure the security of the Website, such as security surveys, coding techniques, secure environments and all measures and procedures that are reasonable according to the state of the art in this domain. In the event of an attack on the Website, information crime or any other unauthorized attempt to gain access to a part or the whole of the website, UHASSELT will use all legal means available to protect the integrity of its Website with the assistance of the competent authorities.
5. Intellectual property rights
The Website and SKETCH ATLAS in particular – including texts, layout, graphic components, graphical user interfaces, presentation, registered trademarks, logos, software, source code, databases, brands, and other components of the Website – are protected by intellectual property rights belonging exclusively to UHASSELT.
You are provided with a temporary login to SKETCH ATLAS for strictly personal use only. Any reproduction, dissemination, sale, distribution, publication, adaptation, translation, processing and use for commercial purposes of all or part of this Website, in any form or by any means whatsoever, is prohibited. The same applies to data that is not protected by intellectual rights, which can be collected, among other things, by means of the technique of ‘screen scraping’.
You will in no event (attempt to) disassemble, decompile, copy or reverse engineer the functions, content and/or design of SKETCH ATLAS.
UHASSELT reserves the right to take any and all measures it considers to be effective in order to prevent and/or stop the infringement of its intellectual property rights, without being held liable due to this measure.
6. Improper use
While using the Website and SKETCH ATLAS in particular, You are prohibited to perform acts that are in contravention of Belgian laws or any other applicable laws or rights of third parties. Should this be the case, UHASSELT is at all times entitled to report Your improper use to the relevant authorities.
7.Warranties and liabilities
SKETCH ATLAS is offered to You on an ‘as is’ basis. UHASSELT does not guarantee that SKETCH ATLAS or more generally Your use of the Website meets Your expectations. You will at all times remain responsible for Your use of SKETCH ATLAS or more generally the Website.
A device (pc, smartphone, tablet, etc.) is required to login to SKETCH ATLAS. UHASSELT cannot be held liable for any damage caused by the use of the device or for damage to the device itself.
UHASSELT cannot be held liable for Your intangible, indirect or consequential damages, or claims of third parties arising as a result of or in connection with Your use of the Website.
Without limiting the above, the contractual and non-contractual liability of UHASSELT to You is at all times limited to the lowest amount on the basis of the invoiced amounts, excluding VAT and other taxes, as mentioned on the Payment Confirmation. If no fee is paid to UHASSELT, the liability of UHASSELT is limited to 100 EUR (€100).
In any case, UHASSELT is not liable to You in case the damage is the result of force majeure.
In addition to compensation for which You are liable under applicable law or the conditions of these Terms of Use, You indemnify UHASSELT against all liabilities, damages, losses, costs and expenses (including legal costs and reasonable amounts paid in the execution of legal claims) suffered by UHASSELT or caused and directly or indirectly resulting from Your use of the Website and violation of these Terms of Use.
8.Changes to the Website and/or Terms of Use
UHASSELT reserves the right to modify or update the Website and SKETCH ATLAS in particular, at any time without prior notice. In addition, UHASSELT has the right to modify or update the Terms of Use. UHASSELT will not be liable for any adverse consequences that may arise from the changes made to the content of the Website or the Terms of use.
It is Your responsibility to ensure that You are aware of the most recent Terms of Use. UHASSELT reserves the right to change these Terms of Use at any time; provided the changes made are clearly published on the Website, thereby stating the version number.
These Terms of Use were last updated on June 17, 2022.
9. Miscellaneous
If one or more clauses of these Terms of Use are declared to be partially or completely void or non-binding by a legal intervention, it will not affect the validity of the remaining clauses or the validity of the entire Terms of Use. If UHASSELT wishes to amend or replace the clause(s) in question, the amended or new clause(s) is to be as closely as possible in line with the void or non-binding clause(s).
The failure of UHASSELT to demand a strict compliance with the provisions of these Terms of Use shall not be construed as any renouncement or rejection thereof.
All disputes relating to the validity, interpretation, enforcement, execution and termination of these Terms of Use shall be settled in accordance with Belgian law, excluding the private international law as far as it concerns referral. Only the competent courts of Hasselt (Belgium) will be able to take notice of such disputes that cannot be settled amicably between You and UHASSELT.
1. Definitions
In this Privacy Policy, the below terms shall have the following meanings:
– SKETCH ATLAS: the online educational platform for (blended) learning within specialized video tutorials on the topic of architectural sketching/envisioning, developed by UHasselt and made available at the Website.
– Privacy Policy: the policy as set forth in these articles, with respect to Your use of SKETCH ATLAS.
– UHasselt: a public autonomous institution, operating under Belgian law, established at Martelarenlaan 42, 3500 Hasselt, Belgium, and with company number BE0208.359.859: https://www.uhasselt.be/en.
– We: UHasselt.
– Website: the Website on which SKETCH ATLAS is made available by UHasselt: https://sketchatlas.org.
You: visitor of the Website.
2. General information
Consulting or using this Website implies Your full knowledge and acceptance of this Privacy Policy.
One of the main priorities of UHASSELT is Your privacy. This Privacy Policy contains types of information that is collected and recorded by SKETCH ATLAS and how UHASSELT uses it.
This Privacy Policy applies only to our online activities and is valid for visitors to our Website with regards to the information that they shared and/or information collected in SKETCH ATLAS. This Privacy Policy is not applicable to any information collected offline or via channels other than this Website.
If You have additional questions or require more information about this Privacy Policy, please do not hesitate to contact info@sketchatlas.org
3. Information we collect
The personal information that You are asked to provide, and the reasons why You are asked to provide it, will be made clear to You at the point We ask You to provide Your personal information.
If You contact us directly, we may receive additional information about You such as Your name, email address, phone number, the contents of the message and/or attachments You may send us, and any other information You may choose to provide.
When You register and pay for an account, We may ask for Your contact information, including items such as name, company name, address, email address, telephone number, credit card number and VAT-number.
4. How we use Your information
We solely use the information We collect for the intended purpose, i.e.:
– Provide, operate, and maintain our Website; and
– Improve, personalize, and expand our Website; and
– Understand and analyze how You use our Website; and
– Develop new products, services, features, and functionalities of SKETCH ATLAS; and
– Communicate with You, including for customer service, to provide You with updates and other information relating to the Website; and
– Send You emails regarding account management and purchases; and
– Find and prevent fraud.
5. Log Files
SKETCH ATLAS follows a standard procedure of using log files. These files log visitors when they visit Websites. All hosting companies do this as part of hosting services’ analytics. The information collected by log files include internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date and time stamp, referring/exit pages, and possibly the number of clicks. These are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable. The purpose of the information is for analyzing trends, administering the site, tracking users’ movement on the Website, and gathering demographic information. Our Privacy Policy was created with the help of the Privacy Policy Generator.
6. Cookies and Web Beacons
Like any other Website, SKETCH ATLAS uses ‘cookies’. These cookies are used to store information including visitors’ preferences, and the pages on the Website that the visitor accessed or visited. The information is used to optimize the users’ experience by customizing our web page content based on visitors’ browser type and/or other information.
7. GDPR Data Protection Rights
We would like to make sure You are fully aware of all of Your data protection rights. Every user is entitled to the following:
– The right to access – You have the right to request copies of Your personal data. We may charge You a small fee for this service.
– The right to rectification – You have the right to request that we correct any information You believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request that we complete the information You believe is incomplete.
– The right to erasure – You have the right to request that we erase Your personal data, under certain conditions.
– The right to restrict processing – You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of Your personal data, under certain conditions.
– The right to object to processing – You have the right to object to our processing of Your personal data, under certain conditions.
– The right to data portability – You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to You, under certain conditions.
– If You make a request, we have one month to respond to You. If You would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.
8. Children’s Information
Another part of UHasselt’s priority is adding protection for children while using the internet. We encourage parents and guardians to observe, participate in, and/or monitor and guide their online activity.
SKETCH ATLAS does not knowingly collect any personal identifiable information from children under the age of 13. If You think that Your child provided this kind of information on our Website, we strongly encourage You to contact us immediately and we will do our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.
1. Definitions
In this Cookie Policy, the below terms shall have the following meanings:
– SKETCH ATLAS: the online educational platform for (blended) learning within specialized video tutorials on the topic of architectural sketching/envisioning, developed by UHasselt and made available at the Website.
– Cookie Policy: the policy as set forth in these articles, with respect to Your use of SKETCH ATLAS.
– UHasselt: a public autonomous institution, operating under Belgian law, established at Martelarenlaan 42, 3500 Hasselt, Belgium, and with company number – BE0208.359.859: https://www.uhasselt.be/en.
– We: UHasselt.
– Website: the Website on which SKETCH ATLAS is made available by UHasselt: https://sketchatlas.org.
– You: visitor of the Website.
2. What Are Cookies
As is common practice with almost all professional websites, this Website uses cookies, which are tiny files that are downloaded to Your computer, to improve Your experience.
This Cookie Policy describes what information they gather, how UHasselt uses it and why UHasselt sometimes needs to store these cookies. UHasselt will also share how You can prevent these cookies from being stored however this may downgrade or ‘break’ certain elements of the Website’s functionality, and in particular Your use of SKETCH ATLAS.
This Cookie Policy was created with the help of the Cookies Policy Generator.
3. How We Use Cookies
We use cookies for a variety of reasons detailed below. Unfortunately in most cases there are no industry standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features they add to this Website. It is recommended that You leave on all cookies if You are not sure whether You need them or not in case they are used to provide a service that You use.
4. Disabling Cookies
You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on Your browser (see Your browser Help for how to do this). Be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this Website, including the functioning of SKETCH ATLAS. Disabling cookies will usually result in also disabling certain functionality and features of this Website. Therefore it is recommended that You do not disable cookies.
5. The Cookies We Set
– Account related cookies
If You create an account with us then we will use cookies for the management of the signup process and general administration. These cookies will usually be deleted when You log out however in some cases they may remain afterwards to remember Your Website preferences when logged out.
– Login related cookies
We use cookies when You are logged in so that we can remember this fact. This prevents You from having to log in every single time You visit a new page. These cookies are typically removed or cleared when You log out to ensure that You can only access restricted features and areas when logged in.
– Orders processing related cookies
This Website offers e-commerce or payment facilities and some cookies are essential to ensure that Your order is remembered between pages so that we can process it properly.
– Forms related cookies
When You submit data through a form such as those found on contact pages or comment forms cookies may be set to remember Your user details for future correspondence.
Third Party Cookies
In some special cases We also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details which third party cookies You might encounter through this Website.
– This Website uses Google Analytics which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solution on the web for helping us to understand how You use the Website and ways that we can improve Your experience. These cookies may track things such as how long You spend on the Website and the pages that You visit so we can continue to produce engaging content.
For more information on Google Analytics cookies, see the official Google Analytics page.
6. More Information
Hopefully the Cookie Policy clarified things for You. As was previously mentioned: if there is something that You aren’t sure of whether You need it or not, it is advisable to leave cookies enabled in case it does interact with one of the features You use on our Website.
For more general information on cookies, please read the Cookies Policy article.
However if You are still looking for more information, You can contact us through one of our preferred contact methods:
By visiting this link: https://sketchatlas.org/support/